The Director General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr Elias Sory, has cautioned those who consider the service as a gold mine to pack and go. "If you came into the service to make money you can go but you can make it if you are good," he advised. He was addressing members of the Health Service at Hohoe, staff of the 'Hohoe Municipal Hospital and staff and students of the Hohoe Midwifery Training College at the start of his four-day official visit to the Volta Region. Dr Sory told them that their prime responsibility was to offer good and cheerful service to their clients. The Director General asked Health Training Institutions to insist on taking at least 80 per cent of the admissions from the regions in which they are situated. This is to ensure that their trainees stay and work among their people after passing out. "By this means, we can stem the massive brain drain which is affecting our hospitals.” He called for the opening up of more training schools in the regions to make sure that there were more trained personnel. He also agreed on the need to open up more schools to train more medical assistants. Dr McDomien Dedzo, the Volta Regional Director of Health Services, said with the establishment of more midwifery training colleges, Ghana would have more midwives. Dr Edwin Danoo, the Medical Superintendent of the Hohoe Hospital said the hospital had used part of its internally generated funds to purchase a new 4X4 pickup, erected overhead tanks for the wards and constructed a new mortuary. He said they had also converted an old laundry into an emergency ward, re-roofed their dental clinic, renovated their ante-natal clinic and done about 75 per cent fencing of the hospital to present massive encroachment. Source: Times/Ghana